House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has issued a stinging rebuke of President Donald Trump, accusing him of using “threats and temper tantrums” in negotiations with Mexico. Trump had threatened to use tariffs not as a trade negotiating tool but as a cudgel to force Mexico to stop immigrants from heading to the U.S. border. Pelosi said in a statement Saturday that “President Trump undermined America’s preeminent leadership role in the world by recklessly threatening to impose tariffs on our close friend and neighbor to the south. Trump earlier in the day ripped “Nervous Nancy Pelosi” and Democrats in a tweet for “getting nothing done.”The new tongue-lashing from Pelosi is bound to trigger yet another angry reaction from Trump. Trump blasted her as a “disgrace,” and a “disaster,” and a “nasty, vindictive, horrible person.”

Source: Huffington Post June 09, 2019 00:11 UTC